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Definition: Cotton |
CottonNoun1. Silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state. 2. Fabric woven from cotton fibers. 3. Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers. 4. Thread made of cotton fibers. Verb1. Take a liking to; "cotton to something". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cotton" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of young growing cotton-fields, denotes great business and prosperous times. To see cotton ready for gathering, denotes wealth and abundance for farmers. For manufacturers to dream of cotton, means that they will be benefited by the advancement of this article. For merchants, it denotes a change for the better in their line of business. To see cotton in bales, is a favorable indication for better times. To dream that cotton is advancing, denotes an immediate change from low to high prices, and all will be in better circumstances. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | A tropical or subtropical plant of the genus Gossypium(mallow family), grown for this fibre or its seed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Cotton To cotton to a person. To cling to one or take a fancy to a person. To stick to a person as cotton sticks to our clothes. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant . The fibre is most often spun into thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile.
Picking cotton in Georgia Cotton is a very valuable crop because only about 10% of the raw weight is lost in processing. Once traces of wax, protein, etc. are removed, the remainder is a natural polymer of pure cellulose. This cellulose is arranged in a way which gives cotton unique properties of strength, durability, and absorbency. Each fibre is made up of twenty to thirty layers of cellulose coiled in a neat series of natural springs. When the cotton boll (seed case) is opened the fibres dry into flat, twisted, ribbon-like shapes and become kinked together and interlocked. This interlocked form is ideal for spinning into a fine yarn.
Cotton has been used to make very fine lightweight cloth in areas with tropical climates for millennia. Some authorities claim that it was likely that the Egyptians had cotton as early as 12,000 BC, and they have found evidence of cotton in Mexican caves (cotton cloth and fragments of fibre interwoven with feathers and fur) which dated back to approximately 7,000 years ago.
But the earliest written reference is to Indian cotton. Cotton has been grown in India for more than three thousand years, and it is referred to in the Rig-veda, written in 1500 BC. A thousand years later the great Greek historian Herodotus wrote about Indian cotton: "There are trees which grow wild there, the fruit of which is a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep. The Indians make their clothes of this tree wool." The Indian cotton industry was eclipsed during the British Industrial Revolution, when the invention of the Spinning Jenny (1764) and Arkwright's spinning frame (1769) enabled cheap mass-production in the UK. Production capacity was further improved by the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793.
Today cotton is produced in many parts of the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Australia, using cotton plants that have been selectively bred so that each plant grows more fibre. In 2002, cotton was grown on 33 million hectares of farmland. 47 billion pounds of raw cotton worth 20 billion dollars US was grown that year.
GM cotton was developed to reduce the heavy reliance on pesticides. GM cotton is widely used throughout the world with claims of requiring up to 80% less pesticide than ordinary cotton. The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) said that worldwide GM cotton was planted on an area of 6.7 million hectares in 2002. This is 20% of the worldwide total area planted in cotton. The US cotton crop was 73% GM in 2003. The introduction of GM cotton proved to be a commercial disaster in Australia - the yields were far lower than predicted, and the cotton plants cross-pollinated with other varieties of cotton potentially causing many legal problems for unsuspecting farmers. However the introduction of a second variety of GM cotton led to 15% of Australian cotton in being GM in 2003 with an expectation of 80% in 2004 when the original variety will be banned.
The cotton industry relies heavily on chemicals - fertilisers, insecticides, etc., making it environmentally unfriendly. Some farmers are moving towards an organic model of production, and chemical-free organic cotton products are now available.
References and further reading
- History of Indian Cotton
- The Thames and Hudson Manual of Dyes and Fabrics, Joyce Storey, 1978
- Photo documentation and commentary on collateral damage to the environment from cotton spraying
For the British band leader and entertainer, see Billy Cotton.
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cotton Mather (1664 - 1728). B.A. 1678 (Harvard), M.A. 1681; honorary doctorate 1710 (University of Glasgow). Son of Increase Mather. Socially and politically influential Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer.Mather graduated from Harvard in 1678 at only 15 years of age. After completing his post-graduate work, he joined his father as assistant Pastor of Boston's Old North Church. It was not until his father's death in 1723 that Mather assumed full responsibilities as Pastor at the Church.
Author of more than 450 books and pamphlets, his ubiquitous literary works made him one of the most influential religious leaders in America. In his numerous writings, Mather set the nation's moral tone, and sounded the call for second and third generation Puritans whose parents had left England for the New England colonies of North America to return to the theological roots of Puritanism.
Cotton Mather A friend of a number of the Judges charged with hearing the Salem Witch Trials, Mather urged the judges to give weight to spectral evidence. Writing of the trials later, Mather stated:
"If in the midst of the many Dissatisfactions among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified..." (Wonders of the Invisible World).
Highly influential due to his prolific writing, Mather was a force to be reckoned with in secular as well as spiritual matters. After the fall of English King James II in 1688, Mather was among the leaders of a successful revolt against James' Governor of the consolidated Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros.
Mather was influential in early American science as well. In 1716, as the result of observations of corn varieties, he conducted one of the first experiments with plant hybridization. This observation was memorialized in a letter to a friend:
"My friend planted a row of Indian corn that was colored red and blue; the rest of the field being planted with yellow which is the most usual color. To the windward side this red and blue so infected three or four rows as to communicate the same color unto them; and part of ye fifth and some of ye sixth. But to the leeward side, no less than seven or eight rows had ye same color communicated unto them; and some small impressions were made on those that were yet further off."
Of Mather's three wives and fifteen children, only one wife and two children survived him. Mather was buried on Copp's Hill.
Mather's Major Works By Date
- Wonders of the Invisible World (1693)
- Magnalia Christi Americana (1702)
- Bonifacius (1710)
- The Christian Philosopher (1721)
- Religious Improvements (1721)
- Manuductio ad Ministerium (1726)
External link
- Cotton Mather's writings
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Synonyms: CottonSynonyms: cotton cloth (n), cotton plant (n), cotton wool (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Filament | Wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute. |
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Screenplays | I am essential to the theatre - as ants to a picnic, as the boll weavil to a cotton field (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) He would have his hoes out in the field picking his cotton for him, he didn't have to do a goddamn thing (Dead Presidents; writing credit: Allen Hughes; Albert Hughes) Chocolate covered cotton. (Catch-22; writing credit: Buck Henry) Hey, I'm as quiet as an ant pissing on cotton. (Heist; writing credit: David Mamet) It don't make a damn to them whether you're waitin' on tables or pickin' cotton, but it does make a damn to me. (Bonnie and Clyde; writing credit: David Newman; Robert Benton) | |
Lyrics | I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) We stood behind our cotton bales and didn't say a thing ("The Battle of New Orleans"; performing artist: Johnny Horton) Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields (BROWN SUGAR; performing artist: Rolling Stones) | |
Clever | Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) Jerry Cotton (1967) Queen Cotton (1941) Cotton Club Revue (1938) The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) | |
Song Titles | Pick A Bale Of Cotton (performing artist: Lonnie Donegan) COTTON EYE JOE (performing artist: REDNEX) | |
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 | Cotton treated with 0.5% Permethrin is collected by rodents to take back to their nests to kill fleas, preventing the transmission of Bubonic Plague & Colorado Tick Fever by such fleas and ticks to other rodents and people. Credit: CDC. |  | Gross pathology of cotton rat infected with Echinococcus multilocularis. First E. locularis isolated in the United States proper. Necropsy. Credit: CDC. |
 | L to R - Mate R. P. Bush, Mrs. Bush, Captain H. A. Cotton, Mate William Weidlich Roland Horne and unknown. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Paul Bauer (right), NRCS Conservation Technician and cotton and sugarcane farmer near San Benito, TX. discuss conservation plans. [Slide 97CS3011.JPG]. Credit: Ken Hammond. |
 | Cotton harvest in Northern California. Credit: Gary Kramer. |  | Corn on a farm owned and operated by Herbert Allen, a black farmer who raises peas, cotton, hogs, cattle and peppers. . Credit: USDA. |
 | African American farmer, Calvin Beasley raises cotton in Humphreys County in the Mississippi Delta. Credit: USDA. |  | Field technician Emilio Chavez drives a tractor-drawn stalk puller that uproots plants after harvest. This prevents regrowth, water loss, and overwintering of pests in cotton and grain sorghum fields. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |
 | The stalk-puller attachment drawn through this cotton test field near Weslaco, Texas, by field technician Victor Valladares plucks out the whole plants, roots and all. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga.. |  | Cotton Tail rabbit, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |
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| "Pink Cotton Candy 1" by Ginger Garvey Commentary: "This is a close up of pink cotton candy. For use as background or texture." | "Cotton" by Vi Xs Commentary: "Various cottons I found in my sewing box." |
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Cotton Mather | Our opportunities to do good are our talents. |
John Cotton Dana | Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. |
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Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | Suppose a duty on the export of cotton, of tobacco, or of flour; and a suit instituted to recover it. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The closure of contracts relating to cotton "futures", which were closed as on July 31, 1914, under the decision of the Liverpool Cotton Association, is also confirmed. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He took from his pocket two little objects which were nothing but two quills wrapped in cotton and introduced one into each nostril |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Once over the line maybe you can pick cotton in the fall |
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Health | Wear cotton underwear and pantyhose with a ventilated cotton lining. (references) | |
Women who have radiation for breast cancer following lumpectomy often find cotton bras the most comfortable. (references) | ||
The wearing of nylon panties, pantyhose without a cotton panel, and tight jeans can lead to yeast infections. (references) | ||
Business | Pure cotton remains the main material for the pile fabric. (references) | |
Products made from cotton especially enjoy a good reputation in Germany. (references) | ||
The textile industry also absorbs some 80% of domestic cotton production. (references) | ||
Children | Turkmenistan | During the annual cotton harvest, some schools in agricultural areas are closed and students work in the fields. (references) |
Economic History | Brazil | Brazil also imports cotton. (references) |
Burundi | Other principal exports include tea and raw cotton. (references) | |
Political Economy | Tajikistan | Government revenue depends highly on state-controlled cotton production. (references) |
Chad | The country has little industry, but exports cotton, cattle, and gum arabic. (references) | |
Kyrgyz Republic | Cotton, tobacco, vegetables, and sugar are the primary agricultural exports. (references) | |
Trade | Tunisia | AS OF JANUARY 1999, ALL COTTON IMPORTS BECAME DUTY FREE. (references) |
Indonesia | Coverage is available for a wide variety of products ranging from cotton, soybeans and feedgrains to leather, lumber and planting seeds. (references) | |
Tunisia | HOWEVER, THE GOVERNMENT RECENTLY REVERSED THIS POLICY IN THE CASE OF COTTON AFTER YEARS OF INTERVENTION BY U.S. AND OTHER FOREIGN SUPPLIERS. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | Light-weight cotton clothing is recommended. (references) |
South Africa | In the warmer months cotton or linen suits are appropriate. (references) | |
Chad | The Sarh-Doba-Moundou-Lere road is essential for the transport of Chadian cotton. (references) | |
Women | Uzbekistan | In rural areas, women often work in the cotton fields during the harvest season. (references) |
Worker Rights | Uzbekistan | Student labor in the cotton fields is paid poorly, and students sometimes must pay for their food. (references) |
Mozambique | Employers normally pay children on a piecework basis for such work, which principally involves picking cotton or tea leaves. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell. There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout: "No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!" So the lawyers applied For injunction. "Denied," Said the Judge: "the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction." Arpad Singiny |
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John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | But the cotton, indispensable for their looms, they will receive almost duty free to weave it into a fabric for our own wear, to the destruction of our own manufactures, which they are enabled thus to under-sell. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | By one class of reasoners the reduced price of cotton and other agricultural products is ascribed wholly to its influence, and by another the reduced price of manufactured articles. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | The cotton plantation will not be less valuable when the product is spun in the country town by operatives whose necessities call for diversified crops and create a home demand for garden and agricultural products. |
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| "Cotton" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 89.74% of the time. "Cotton" is used about 2,318 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 89.74% | 2,080 | 4,172 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.04% | 233 | 19,663 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.17% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,318 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "cotton" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cotton | Last name | 14,000 | 856 |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Pakistan | Elahi Cotton Mills Limited | USA | Cotton States Life Insurance Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "cotton": absorbent cotton ♦ absorbent cotton wool ♦ Arizona wild cotton ♦ bleached cotton fabric ♦ carded cotton ♦ combed cotton ♦ common cotton grass ♦ cotton ball ♦ cotton batting ♦ cotton belt ♦ cotton bollworm ♦ cotton bud ♦ cotton cake ♦ cotton cambric ♦ cotton candy ♦ cotton case to cover a blanket ♦ cotton cloth ♦ cotton County ♦ cotton crepe ♦ cotton fabric ♦ cotton feeder ♦ Cotton flannel ♦ cotton gin ♦ cotton grass ♦ cotton grower ♦ cotton growing ♦ cotton industry ♦ cotton jersey underwear ♦ cotton manufacture ♦ cotton mill ♦ cotton mill fever ♦ Cotton mouse ♦ cotton oil ♦ cotton on ♦ cotton on to ♦ cotton picker ♦ cotton plant ♦ cotton plantation ♦ Cotton press ♦ cotton print ♦ Cotton rat ♦ cotton reel ♦ cotton robe ♦ Cotton rose ♦ cotton rush ♦ Cotton scale ♦ Cotton seed ♦ cotton seed cakes ♦ cotton seed oil ♦ cotton shirt ♦ cotton shrub ♦ cotton sled ♦ cotton spinner ♦ Cotton stainer ♦ Cotton State ♦ cotton stockinet ♦ cotton strain ♦ cotton stripper ♦ cotton swab ♦ Cotton thistle ♦ cotton thread ♦ cotton to ♦ cotton trade ♦ cotton twine ♦ cotton up ♦ cotton up to ♦ cotton up to smb. ♦ cotton Valley ♦ Cotton velvet ♦ cotton waste ♦ cotton wool ♦ cotton wool ball ♦ Cotton worm ♦ cotton yarn ♦ darning cotton ♦ egyptian cotton ♦ Flax cotton ♦ Gun cotton ♦ King Cotton ♦ lavender cotton ♦ levant cotton ♦ lint cotton ♦ mending cotton ♦ mercerized cotton ♦ mineral cotton ♦ mossy cotton ♦ new Zealand cotton ♦ peruvian cotton ♦ printed cotton ♦ printed cotton fabricated ♦ raw cotton ♦ red silk cotton ♦ reel of cotton ♦ Sea Island cotton ♦ sewing cotton ♦ silk cotton ♦ the cotton lords ♦ tightly packed baled cotton ♦ tow cotton ♦ tree cotton ♦ unrefined cotton wool. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cotton": cotton-and-polyester, cotton-based, cotton-broker, cotton-bud, cotton-clad, cotton-covered, cotton-crop, cotton-grass, cotton-growers, cotton-growing, cotton-harvesting, cotton-jersey, cotton-knit, cotton-lace, cotton-lined, cotton-lord, cotton-machine, cotton-mill, cotton-mill-owner, cotton-mills, cotton-mouth, cotton-pickin', cotton-picking, cotton-planter, cotton-polyester, cotton-printed, cotton-processing, cotton-producing, cotton-reel, cotton-rich, cotton-seed, cotton-seed tree, cotton-shift, cotton-spinner, cotton-spinners, cotton-spinning, cotton-tail, cotton-thin, cotton-thread, cotton-top, cotton-twill, cotton-waste, cotton-weaving, cotton-weed, cotton-wood, cotton-wool, cotton-woolled, cotton-wool-like, cotton-woolly, cotton-wool-tipped, cotton-wound. | |
Ending with "cotton": Powell-cotton. | |
Containing "cotton": oleander-and-silk-cotton-lined, Poplar-Cotton Center, red silk-cotton tree, silk-cotton tree, thin-cotton-clad, white silk-cotton tree. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cotton | 1,274 | cotton clothing | 72 |
cotton candy | 586 | cotton mouth snake | 70 |
organic cotton | 436 | gloves cotton | 67 |
cotton candy machine | 335 | egyptian cotton | 67 |
cotton pantie | 259 | cotton tale bedding | 66 |
cotton gin | 244 | cotton tale | 65 |
cotton eye joe | 224 | cotton field | 64 |
cotton scrubs | 193 | cotton plant | 61 |
oxy cotton | 189 | cotton bra | 57 |
cotton club | 172 | cotton shop | 56 |
cotton eyed joe | 165 | cotton bath robe | 56 |
white cotton pantie | 141 | cotton yarn | 54 |
cotton fabric | 113 | cotton bowl | 53 |
cotton candy maker | 102 | cotton throw | 53 |
cotton ginny | 98 | cotton dress | 53 |
cotton mather | 95 | cotton rug | 49 |
egyptian cotton sheet | 93 | candy cotton | 48 |
agriculture cotton | 87 | cotton blanket | 48 |
cotton insurance state | 85 | cotton eyed joe lyrics | 45 |
cotton sheet | 73 | cotton robe | 43 |
cotton club atlanta | 43 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "cotton"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shoqërohem me, prej pambuku (cottony), pambuk (moxa), pajtohem (abide, accord, be reconciled, chime, coincide, comply, comport oneself, concur, conform, do with, eat humble pie, fall in with, lump it, make friends, make it up, make one's peace with, make up, moderate, put up with, subscribe), pëlhurë pambuku, jam i një mendjeje me, i pambuktë, fije pambuku. (various references) | |
Arabic | قماش قطني (super), قطن (belong, dwell, dwelling, inhabit, lodge, nest, settle in), النسيج القطني. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разбирам (apprehend, catch on, comprehend, discover, fathom, figure out, find out, follow, grasp, grip, have, latch, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick up, realize, riddle, rumble, see, see through, sense, take, take in, think, understand, work out), харесвам (affect, dig, fancy, like, relish, take a fancy to), обиквам (attach, take to), загрявам (heat up, latch, twig), залепвам се (adhere, leech), приемам (accept, acknowledge, admit, adopt, allow, assume, buy, concede, embrace, enrol, enroll, entertain, grant, induct, meet, postulate, premise, purchase, receive, recognize, see, stomach, take up, uphold, yield), памучен конец, памучен плат, памучен (cottony), памук (cotton plant). (various references) | |
Catalan | cotó. (various references) | |
Chinese | 棉花 . (various references) | |
Czech | bavlna. (various references) | |
Danish | bomuld (not carded or combed). (various references) | |
Dutch | katoen (not carded or combed), katoenen weefsel. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kotono, katuno. (various references) | |
Faeroese | bummull. (various references) | |
Farsi | پنبه , پارچه نخی , نخ (Fiber-Fibre, String), باپنبه پوشاندن . (various references) | |
Finnish | puuvilla. (various references) | |
French | coton. (various references) | |
Frisian | katoen. (various references) | |
German | Baumwolle (not carded or combed), watte (absorbent cotton, cotton swab, cotton wool, cotton-wool, padding, wadding). (various references) | |
Greek | βαμβάκι (cotton wool). (various references) | |
Guarani | mandyjuetégui (from pure cotton). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוך (cotton wool, down, fluff, pulp, wad), פקולין, כותנה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | pamut (bombast), gyapot. (various references) | |
Icelandic | baðmull, bómull. (various references) | |
Indonesian | katun, kapas (card, wool). (various references) | |
Italian | cotone. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 綿 (padding). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きわた, わた (padding), コットン , カタンいと, もめん. (various references) | |
Korean | 면 (Facet). (various references) | |
Manx | keanagh (cottony), cadee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | bomull (cotton-wool, wadding). (various references) | |
Papago | tokih. (various references) | |
Papiamen | katuna. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ottoncay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | algodão (calico). (various references) | |
Romanian | vatã (batting, cotton wool, padding, wadding), stambã (calico), se ataşa de (link on to), pricepe (apprehend, catch, catch on, come it, compass, comprehend, conceive, enter into, latch on, perceive, pick out, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, take, take in, tumble to, understand), o duce bine (be well off), de bumbac (cottony), bumbac (padding), înfãşura în bumbac sãu în vatã. (various references) | |
Romansch | mangola. (various references) | |
Russian | согласовываться (agree, be in agreement, cohere, jump with), согласоваться (agree), хлопчатобумажный, хлопчатник (cotton plant, cotton-plant), хлопковый (cottony), хлопок хлопковый, хлопок, ватный (quilted, wadded), вата (absorbent cotton, cotton wool, wadding), бумажная ткань, полюбить (love). (various references) | |
Scottish | cotan, cadan. (various references) | |
Sepedi | garane. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zavoleti (catch the fancy, catch the fancy of, fancy oneself, take a fancy to), pamuk, pamučni. (various references) | |
Shona | shinda (cotton thread), donje (unprocessed cotton). (various references) | |
Spanish | algodón (candy floss, swab, swob, wadding). (various references) | |
Sranan | katun. (various references) | |
Swedish | bomull (cotton wool, cotton-wool), tråd (fiber, fibre, filament, strand, thread, wire, yarn). (various references) | |
Tagalog | búlak. (various references) | |
Thai | ผ้าฝ้าย (cotton cloth, nankeen), ฝ้าย, ต้นฝ้าย. (various references) | |
Turkish | pamuklu dokuma, pamuklu (calico, cottony), pamuk ipliği, pamuk (cottony), dost olmak (fraternize, make friends, make friends with), anlaşmak (agree, bargain, be in rapport with, close, come to an agreement, come to terms, compound, compromise, concert, conspire, covenant, fix on, fix up on, get along, get along with, getting on with, go along, hit it off with smb., keep in with, make a bargain, reach an agreement, settle, settle with, strike a bargain). (various references) | |
Turkmen | pagta, gowaзa, зit (chinze), зapak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | узгоджуватися (accord, cohere, comport, conform, consist, stand together, sympathize), уживатися, вата (bombast, wadding, wool), ладити (agree, click, hit it off), бавовняна тканина (denim), бавовняний (cottony), бавовна, бавовниковий, бавовник (cotton plant). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sợi vải bông, bông cây bông chỉ. (various references) | |
Welsh | cotwm. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | byssi, bysso, byssoque, byssum, byssus, GOSSYPIUM. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 7, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | KeiriaiV tetaka thn klinhn mou amfitapoiV de estrwka toiV ap' aiguptou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Intexui funibus lectum meum stravi tapetibus pictis ex Aegypto |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | I haue arayid with cordis my litil bed, and spred with peintid tapitis of Egipt; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 7, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | Gibuklad ko na sa akong higdaanan ang mga habol nga binuldahan, Sa ginihay nga mga panapton nga hinabol sa Egipto. |
| Croatian | Svoju sam postelju nastrla sagovima, vezenim pokrivaèima misirskim; |
| Danish | Jeg har redt mit Leje med Tæpper, med broget ægyptisk Lærred |
| Dutch | Ik heb mijn bedstede met tapijtsieraad toegemaakt, met uitgehouwen werken, met fijn linnen van Egypte; |
| Finnish | Olen leposijalleni peitteitä levittänyt, kirjavaa Egyptin liinavaatetta. |
| French | J`ai orné mon lit de couvertures, De tapis de fil d`Égypte; |
| German | Ich habe mein Bett schön geschmückt mit bunten Teppichen aus Ägypten. |
| Haitian Creole | Mwen ranje kabann mwen ak bon jan dra. Mwen mete bèl dra koulè ki soti peyi Lejip sou kabann mwen. |
| Hungarian | Paplanokkal megvetettem nyoszolyámat, égyiptomi szövésû szõnyegekkel. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tempat tidurku telah kututupi dengan seperei beraneka warna dari Mesir, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa aku sudah menghiasi tempat tidurku dengan kain permadani serta dengan kain gebar yang halus buatan Mesir. |
| Italian | Ho messo coperte soffici sul mio letto, tela fine d'Egitto; |
| Maori | Ko toku moenga kua horahia e ahau, whakapaipai rawa ki te kaitaka, ki nga kakahu purepure no te rinena o Ihipa. |
| Norwegian | Jeg har bredt tepper over min seng, brokete tepper av egyptisk garn. |
| Portuguese | Já cobri a minha cama de cobertas, de colchas de linho do Egito. |
| Rumanian | Mi-am kmpodobit patul cu knvelitori, cu awternut de pknzeturi din Egipt; |
| Russian | ЛПЧТБНЙ С ХВТБМБ РПУФЕМШ НПА, ТБЪОПГЧЕФОЩНЙ ФЛБОСНЙ еЗЙРЕФУЛЙНЙ; |
| Spanish | He preparado mi cama con colchas; la he tendido con lino de Egipto. |
| Swedish | Jag har bäddat min säng med sköna täcken, med brokigt linne från Egypten. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cotton": cottoned, cottoning, cottonmouth, cottonmouths, cottons, cottonseed, cottonseeds, cottontail, cottontails, cottonweed, cottonweeds, cottonwood, cottonwoods, cottony. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cotton": guncotton. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cotton": guncottons. (additional references) | |
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"Cotton" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cattan, Cattin, catton, cbto, Cofton, Conton, coston, Coto, coton, cotone, cotote, cottan, cottea, cotten, cottin, cotto, Cottown, cottton, Cufton, cuton, Cuxtone, Dotton, koltun, Koshtan, Kotto, kotton, Notton, Octon, oton, Ottone, scottum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cotton" (pronounced kÄ"tun) |
| 5 | k Ä" t u n | guncotton. |
| 4 | -Ä" t u n | forgotten, gotten, misbegotten, rotten. |
| 3 | -t u n | fatten, actin, badminton, batten, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, flatten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, Samaritan, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-n-o-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: conto. | |
-2 letters: coon, coot, onto, otto, toon, toot. | |
-3 letters: con, coo, cot, noo, not, oot, ton, too, tot. | |
-4 letters: no, on, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-n-o-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: contort, cottons, cottony. | |
+2 letters: confetto, contorts, cottoned, outcount, topnotch. | |
+3 letters: contorted, contralto, cottoning, cytotoxin, entoproct, guncotton, outcounts, thecodont. | |
+4 letters: autochthon, boycotting, cartoonist, coaptation, cogitation, contention, contorting, contortion, contortive, contractor, contraltos, contrition, controvert, coplotting, corotating, corotation, cottonseed, cottontail, cottonweed, cottonwood, countertop, cytotoxins, entoprocts, frontcourt, guncottons, nomothetic, noncontact, outcounted, protection, stenotopic, thecodonts, topnotcher, touchstone. | |
+5 letters: anastomotic, antiboycott, antitobacco, autochthons, cartoonists, coaptations, coarctation, cogitations, commentator, commutation, competition, complotting, comportment, computation, concomitant, condottiere, condottieri, confutation, connotation, connotative, constrictor, constructor, contentions, contentious, continuator, contortions, contraction, contractors, contraption, contributor, contritions, controlment, controverts, corotations, cotoneaster, cotransport, cottonmouth, cottonseeds, cottontails, cottonweeds, cottonwoods, counterplot, countershot, countertops, endocytotic, endomitotic, frontcourts, geotectonic, gerontocrat, gnotobiotic, isotonicity, muttonchops, nonconstant, noncontacts, noncontract, obstruction, occultation, ontogenetic, optokinetic, orthocenter, orthodontic, outcounting, phonotactic, pinocytotic, postconcert, protections, protraction, retroaction, tobacconist, topnotchers, topocentric, totipotency, touchstones, woodcutting. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Derivations 23. Rhymes 24. Anagrams | 25. Bibliography |
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